Maia

the queer of hormuz

without gas there's just light

gaslighting only works until you run out of fuel

or hayek during his evil phase

"are extraordinarily productive but structurally inhuman, dissolving the intermediate associations that people who live at human scale need to believe that they are leading lives worth living."

Sounds suspiciously like sociology. And disembeddedness of Polanyi and Krippner sorts.

compare how foreign elites took electiion interference (bolsonaro and yoon will die in prison) versus how american elites take it: a man who will sufffer *enormous* political losses is about to pardon what basically amounts to a coup attempt for inscrutable reasons

Beyond Social Death: A Review Essay of Enslavement: Past and Present by Orlando Patterson (Forthcoming Article) - <i>Enslavement: Past and Present</i> by Orlando Patterson should be required reading for any economist or economic historian interested in long-run development and growth, race, inequality, political economy, or institutional development. Patterson synthesizes decades of his cross-disciplinary scholarship into an ambitious comparative framework to understand slavery, built on two main pillars: (i) slavery as “social death”, defined as a condition of total domination, natal alienation and dishonor, and (ii) a “bundle of rights” approach that permits systematic comparison across societies and periods. This review, after summarizing the book’s central arguments, offers three critiques—the limited applicability of social death to West and Central African slavery, insufficient attention to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the problematic extension to “modern slavery”—and proposes a research agenda focused on agency and resilience, diasporic identity, and reparations.

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Beyond Social Death: A Review Essay of Enslavement: Past and Present by Orlando Patterson" by Leonard Wantchekon.

it's extremely charitable to john and carolyn and very candid about everyone else, which makes for more compelling television but makes everyone comme off *atrociously* and is arguably unethical
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the problem is the show accurately portrays say, daryl hannah, but does not extend the same honesty to john and caroline. she comes off as like an aw shucks clean girl influencer when she was a cocaine adidct workaholic who loved partying and got physical with her husband in public

people thought there was no way she talked and acted the way she did on the show, looked up old clips of daryl hannah talking, and... yeah she did actually behave like that

to be fair the part where hannah got mad at him for bailing on her dog's funeral to look after his dying mother was actually real. hannah was 100% right to complain about her vilification on the show on the new york times, but the reason she came off looking bad was... her own actions

Stablecoin = Fracturedcoin If stablecoins are the future of money, the BIS reckons the future looks a bit rubbish

Competition is good, unless you're LARPing as money.

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jesus christ man. there's only one word for this type of behavior

Tommy Robinson is writing for Jerusalem Post, and that makes some people uncomfortable - opinion When journalism abandons the debate over ideas and focuses instead on policing who is permitted to speak, the search for truth quietly gives way to the enforcement of acceptable opinion. Tommy Robinson wears a UTK logo ("Unite The Kingdom") on his clothes as he is seen at a rally in solidarity with protesters in Iran on January 11, 2026 in London, England.

ByTOMMY ROBINSON MARCH 8, 2026 18:30

Robinson had previously tried to address “the Jewish Question” in a 2022 article which he deleted shortly afterwards. He divided the Jews into two types – acceptable ones and disreputable ones. He particularly had it in for the Anti-Defamation League – in his eyes a cesspit of Jewish liberalism and subversion internationally.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW

I'm laughing to keep from screaming

i mean, supreme leader who mostly focuses on war and autarky, ceremonnial legislature, council of guardian clerics who decides whether the law adheres to natural divine law... it's what they already have politically

wsj is accelerationist and wants trump to get bogged down in a quagmire that will destroy him politically

kant used to say maturity was acknowledging the specter of one's looming death and honestly i think that israel is one of few countries built on completely denying it. perpetual arrested development in adolescence

if only pussy hadn't alienated them with progressive issue positions on gender and race

Groypers on James Fishback’s insane campaign are now so misogynistic that they’re saying gay sex is straighter than heterosexual sex. www.thebulwark.com/p/james-fish...

i feel like the claude user experience is a lot better. chatgpt looks like it's five seconds away from tryign to sell you microtransactions

what can be, unburdened by what has been

These reforms could transform criminal justice for people — and they cost almost nothing Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.

Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

the islamophobic understanding of muslims is exactly the same as the antisemitic understanding of jews: that they're loyal to the group first and to anything else second. combined with racist tropes of foreign barbarism... ugly, despicable stuff

also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy

my favorite bizarre anecdote of john ganz's book was when gritz showed up at ruby ridge to talk the weavers into not murder-suiciding themselves in a standoff with federal troops and it somehow worked

Malaria is not just a health crisis, it is an economic crisis Eradicating malaria could deliver much larger economic gains in sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed. The new generation of malaria vaccines provides a highly cost-effective way to realise these benefits.

🆕 Malaria is not just a health crisis, it is an economic crisis

Today on VoxDev, Minki Kim (Economics department, University of Mannheim.) discusses how eradicating malaria could deliver much larger economic gains in sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed: https://ow.ly/JWuR50YrINw

Rethinking the agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters After adjusting for labour input differences, the apparent agricultural productivity gap in India is largely a formal-informal sector divide. Differences in education and labour hours fully explain the productivity gap between informal sector and agriculture. If these are addressed, incomes can increase even without convergence to formal sector productivity levels.

🆕 Rethinking the agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters

Today on VoxDev, Rajveer Jat (Western Digital) & Bharat Ramaswami (Ashoka University) find that India's agricultural productivity gap is largely a formal-informal sector divide: https://ow.ly/mgAk50YrHP4

What the Challenger Layoff Tracker Really Measures Why announced layoffs often diverge from the government’s layoff data.

I started a substack! First piece looks at the Challenger layoff data compared to JOLTS.

Why did Challenger, but not JOLTS, show an increase in layoffs the last three years?

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